The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method

Bar charts & Histograms

Pie charts

Scatter plots

Scatter plots

Visualization is
using Art to
display Information
derived from Data

Data as Art

• We process visual information 60,000 times faster than text information
• An artistic viewpoint helps express the story in data

• Technology allows us to create dynamic (moving) pictures to tell the story

• Some of the best are New York Times and The Guardian

We produce a lot of data

Deaths and temperature (1852)

Cholera (1854)

A common visualization

Better?

Plotting points

In 3-D

As art

What do STEM workers study?

School funding per student

It turns out great minds don’t work alike!!!

NCAA tournament brackets

Basketball shots

Describing a basketball game

Soccer

Cats!!

Spending at home

At the movies

Countries

Summarizing a year in the city

The power of the wind

Measuring for cooking

Measuring planets

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes